C S 240
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Advanced Software Construction
Computer Science
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Course Description
Advanced software development with an object-oriented focus. Design, implementation, and testing of medium-sized programs including a server program.
When Taught
All Semesters/Terms
Fixed/Max
4
Fixed
3
Fixed
1
Other Prerequisites
or instructor's consent.
Title
Construction
Learning Outcome
Learn to construct a medium-scale server program with data persistence in a principled way by applying relevant engineering techniques such as up-front design, quality code construction, unit testing, assertions, and error handling.
Title
Design
Learning Outcome
Learn and apply basic software design principles such as single responsibility, low coupling, avoidance of code duplication and information/data hiding to create modular code.
Title
Databases
Learning Outcome
Learn and apply the basics of relational database design, modeling and programmatic access.
Title
Security
Learning Outcome
Learn and apply basic security principles and concepts.
Title
Testing
Learning Outcome
Learn to validate a program’s behavior against its specification using testing practices.
Title
Tools
Learning Outcome
Use modern software tools including integrated development environments, testing frameworks, debuggers, version control, and documentation processing tools.
